Lincoln & Herndon

[RJNorton]

Eva, talk about an understatement. Here is what he wrote to Jesse Weik on Jan 9, 1886
".....This woman was to me a terror, haughty poor when she married Lincoln, imperious, proud, aristocratic, witty and bitter; she was a gross material woman as she appeared to me."

Then, this is what he wrote to Weik exactly one week later on Jan 16, 1886.
".....she was a highly cultured woman, witty, dashing, pleasant, and a lady".

(Both of the passages above are quoted from Emmanuel Hertz' The Hidden Lincoln, pgs #131 and 136)

Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. writes, "In 1881 Herndon quit drinking and tried to pull himself together."

Perhaps it didn't work?